- Q:What are some abiotic factors on which your plant depends for its survival? What about biotic factors that affect your plant? Describe some of these factors.A: Abiotic factors mainly include Water and the air quality (To give it proper nourishment and environment to grow), and Biotic factors include the soil and animals around it (Soil to let it grow and animals like earthworms not eating them)
- Q:How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition?A: The plants aren't in super huge competition as they have the ability to have their own growing space, but they are also competing for amount of water and space in the garden.
- Q:How are "winners" and "losers" determined in this struggle? Is it always so clear cut who "wins" and who "loses?" What makes that determination complicated sometimes?A: It's not always clear cut who wins and loses, as smaller plants can still be healthy and tasty, but typically size and color are factors. A brownish, smaller plant clearly has lost the genetic warfare.
- Q:Describe other types of interaction (besides competition) in which your plants are involved. Make sure to explain how this interaction affects each organism involved.A: The plants are involved with parasitism with worms, as worms may eat them, having them benefit, but the plants are partly eating, putting them at a worse state.
- Q:What evidence is there in the garden that succesion (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession?A: There could be smaller forms of secondary succesion forming inside the garden. The plants may respond to certain activities, like rain and such, and they are not the ones causing it.
Fertilization occurs in flowering plants through the process of fertilization. The center of the flower has long thin filaments with anthers at the top. This is called the stamen. Four pollen sacks are located in the plants anthers which contain MMCs, Micro Mother Cells. Each of the pollen sacks produces eight pollen grains, the sperm cells from the MMC. Once the pollen grains inside each of the sacks are ready the anthers will burst open vomiting the sticky pollen onto the flowers stamen in a process called dehiscence. The flowers bright colorful pedals lure insects inside to drink its nectar, located at the flowers base. Once the insects climb into the flower the sticky pollen from the anthers gets stuck on its feet, legs, or body. In the process of cross pollination the insect that collects this sticky pollen will transfer it to another flower pollinating it in the process. In the process of self pollination the pollen will be moved from the stamen to the pistol/carpal of the flowe...
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